872 FRINGILLID^. 



i, k. J ad. ; /. $ Teneriffe, April 28, 1871 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ad. sk. (F. G.). 



m. cJad.sk. S. Michael's, Azores, March Salvin-Godman Coll. 



I860 (F. G.). 



n,o. 2ad.sk. S. Michael's, April 1865 {F. (?.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



p, q, r,s, t. Skeletons. C. Darwin, Esq. [P.]. 



18. Serinus canonicus *. 



? Serinus syriaca, Bp. Consp. i. p. 523 (1850). 



? Dryospiza syriaca, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Berol. p. 46 (1854). 



Serinus aurifrons (nee Blyth), Tristr. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 447 ; id. Ibis, 



1867, p. 90 ; id. Ibis, 1868, p. 207, pi. 7. 

 Fringilla aurifrons, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 83, no. 7208 (1870). 

 Serinus canonicus, Dresser, B. Eur. iii. p. 558, pi. 171 (1876) ; Tristr. 



Faun. § Flor. Palest, p. 65, pi. ix. figs. 1, 2 (1884). 



Adult male. General colour above ashy brown, washed with 

 yellow and streaked with dusky-brown centres to the feathers of 

 the mantle and back ; rump uniform bright yellow ; wing-coverts 

 yellow, the greater coverts with blackish bases ; bastard- wing 

 black, fringed with ashy whitish ; primary-coverts and quills 

 black, edged with yellow and fringed with whitish at the tips, the 

 blackish colour of the secondaries reaching to the outer web in the 

 middle of these quills and forming a bar ; upper tail-coverts pale 

 yellow, with dusky brown centres ; tail-feathers blackish brown, 

 edged with yellow, the inner web edged with whity brown, which 

 increases towards the outer feathers, so that the outermost is whity 



* I have very little doubt that the oldest name of this species will be 

 found to be Serinus syriacus, Bp. (ex Hempr. & Ehr. MSS.), as already sug- 

 gested by Canon Tristram (Ibis, 1868, p. 207). 



The following species is probably closely allied to, if not identical with, 

 8. canonicus: — 



Serinus pectoralis. 

 Serinus pectoralis, Murray, Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 190 (1884). 



Male. A dark brown, nearly black streak at the base of the upper mandible, 

 followed by a bright yellow frontal band, extending as a broad supercilium 

 behind the ear-coverts; a slaty-grey streak through the eye; crown of head 

 slaty grey, each feather with a dark central streak ; nape greenish olive ; back, 

 scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts yellowish green, the feathers with a dark 

 mesial streak ; median coverts dark brown, edged with yellow ; greater 

 coverts also dark brown, margined on their outer webs and tipped with yellow ; 

 primaries and secondaries dusky brown, margined whitish on their inner webs, 

 and edged on the outer very narrowly with greenish ; rump olivaceous ; upper 

 tail-coverts yellowish, some of the lateral feathers with a dark mesial streak ; 

 ehin, throat, breast, and sides of the face bright golden yellow ; a dark brown, 

 nearly black streak from each side of the base of the lower mandible extending 

 to the sides of the neck, which is slaty grey ; sides of breast slaty grey, with a 

 narrow band issuing from each side, nearly meeting on the lower breast, and 

 forming a nearly complete pectoral band ; rest of under surface yellow ; tail 

 dusky brown, the feathers slightly darker on their outer webs, and all tipped 

 yellowish white on their inner webs ; bill horny ; legs dark fleshy ; irides light 

 brown. (A. Murray.) 



Hah. Karachi, Sind. 



